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Downs, Robert B.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

A strong case can be made out, I am convinced, for the proposition
that many librarians are obsessed with classification for the sake of
classification. With rare exceptions, investigation has revealed, library
users ...

Rutzen, Ruth(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

Our library literature is replete with statements that indicate that
the goals and functions of the public library are vitally concerned
with the interests and needs of people in general. In fact our most recent
statement, ...

Howell, Isabel(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

A paper which is to be read before an audience of librarians and
students at a conference held as one of the activities of a distinguished
Graduate Library School should doubtless begin with a definition of
terms. This ...

Taube, Mortimer(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

The topic which has been assigned to me, "Classification Today-
Shadow or Substance," might more appropriately have come at the end
of the Institute, rather than the beginning. If I could convince you that
our pursuit ...

Henkle, Herman H.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

Very little is known about the effectiveness of library subject catalogues
as tools of research. We know that they are indispensable
from a theoretical point of view, and from general observation of
their use and the ...

Eaton, Thelma(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

The story of the development of classification from Aristotle to
Ranganathan has been told so often that, as I worked on this paper, I
found myself wondering what I could possibly contribute to the subject.
In our ...

Young, Heartsill H.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

It has been many years since Melvil Dewey's Decimal Classification
has been discussed before a group such as this. In the nineteenth
century, book classification was a controversial subject, and all
librarians were eager ...

Doyle, Irene M.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

Gabriel Naude", as early as 1627, advised on the arrangement of
books in a library as follows:
The seventh point .... is that of the Order and Disposition
which Books ought to observe in a Library; .... for without
this, ...

Bartle, Robert G.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

At the very outset I want to warn you that I am here in the role of
a mathematician who is interested in books and that I am entirely innocent
of library procedures and terminology, the theory of classification,
or the ...

Strout, Donald E.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

What we attempt here is in no sense a formal summary of content.
We seek rather, in the tradition of the previous Allerton Park Institutes,
to catch and record, through a series of informal observations
and impressions, ...

Shera, Jesse H.(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1959)

Of all the modes of human intellectual activity prognostication is
probably the most treacherous. It may not influence people, but certainly
it will alienate one's friends. No one paid much heed to the
warnings of the ...